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EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… was known as the 'Tricameral Parliament', still excluded Black South African citizens from voting. The exclusion of the Black South African community acted…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… one of three that week which became known in England as Black Week (the others were at Stormberg and Colenson). … at the height of their existence. Mortality…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… of the Freedom Charter are a cover for a section of the black middle class to become junior capitalist partners of … challenging these features, ie that the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… the city centre are the three townships for Cape Town's black residents. The three townships occupy about 1000 … as well as an office to issue permits…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… campus that are physical reminders of White supremacy and Black subjugation and oppression that is rooted in South … make a connection with the lack of human…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… a deposit before they could publish. This became known as "Black Wednesday." On the same day, Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods who was also a friend to the…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… would in terms of the period; greatly extend the number of black people eligible to vote. For the White electorate of … as his own party rejected him as…
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… the cutbacks by the Apartheid government on education for Black students. The result was that Black teachers now had more students to teach and fewer …
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… to prevent mass protest demonstration by pupils. However, Black pupils were boycotting schools in many parts of the … the students was the inferior standards…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Poqo activists. The PAC, like the ANC, had support in black communities across South Africa. But there are areas … organization and that they intended to…
ArticleTswana
… baTswana [people]) The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, … and Sotho account for the largest percentage of…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… at the same time, during this period there is evidence of black and white children being educated in common classrooms. … growing missionary movement to…
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… recalls the shock and grief he felt that day, and how the Black Consciousness Movement leader helped to shape a … conference at Rhodes University in July…
Archive"Racism, Apartheid and a New World Order": Speech in Acceptance of the Third World Prize on Behalf of Nelson and Winnie Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 5 May 1986
… underling, each with his position defined by race. As black South Africans, we have lived within the entrails of … who are white are inherently superior…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… . The University Admitted its first small group of Black Students in the 1920's . The number of Black Students remained relatively low until the 1980s and ……
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for black people and around which the principle of segregation in South Africa was organised; sometimes…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… and civil service of clerks and interpreters here are all black men. (4) Basutoland is conveniently near to the … to the segregationist, because he does not…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… northwest of Durban’s city centre – Badsha’s collection of black-and-white photographs eschews spectacle in favour of … himself. “If you look after 1960,…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… expansion was dependent upon increased employment of black labour was seen from the fact that black employment increased by 70 percent compared with 20 … of…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
“Imbali” is the IsiZulu word for: “Flower”. Imbali Township was established in 1958 and built in the mid-1960s to settle the City workers and employment…
Place"When Woodstock had a Beach"
… estuary, a natural meeting point for the Liesbeek and Black Rivers . Yet, by the early 20th century, the relentless …
Culture from Exile: Dakawa Art Centre By Jongikaya Mene
… several years it hosted an exhibition about the history of black rugby in Grahamstown. Every year during the Grahamstown …
ArchiveThis violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019
Every time there is violence of a particular sort in SA I think about 1949. In mid-January of that year a single incident between an Indian shopkeeper and a…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… and would lead to the greater suffering of South Africa's black population. Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia, along …
PlaceLimietberg Nature Reserve, Paarl
… and is home to: Baboons, Dassies, the Cape Sugarbird, Black Eagles, the sweet little Protea Canary and is the where … and is home to: Baboons, Dassies, the…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… it can leave you with more questions than answers. A black-and-white photograph from 1984 shows a black woman and her child lying on a bed surrounded by…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… It’s well established that 28 000 white people and 20 000 black people died in various camps in South Africa. Between … of the action that the British…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… government lifted the obligatory carrying of passbooks by Black people on 23 July 1986. The pass system was, however, not abandoned altogether, Black men and…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… Reverend Martin Luther King leads a public bus boycott by Black people in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, for which he is … racial oppression. His dream of freedom…
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… situation. Concerned with the plight of suffering Boer and Black families in the concentration camps, Hobhouse was also … who fought for the rights of South…